Easy magazine cover in Photoshop

You have already walked through the tutorial on isolating an image -- now we use that technique in order to create a magazine cover.

It's so easy to create a magazine cover with Adobe Photoshop that anyone can understand the process from the screenshots alone, without any explanations. Allthough it's quite simple and straight forward. We've already isolated an image of this young lady from the background.

Now let's try to create a cover for a photography related magazine.

First of all create a new document and fill the background with a gradient, like this one

On top of this bring an isolated image, such as the lady from my example here and add a drop shadow

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